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The good folks over at one of my favorite places to hang out might better get a voodoo doll and some pins because they might have hit the nail on the head.

U.S. forecaster sees increased 2010 hurricane threat

The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season will produce an above-average eight hurricanes, four of them major, posing a heightened threat to the U.S. coastline, the Colorado State University hurricane forecasting team predicted on Wednesday.

In its second forecast in four months for the 2010 season, the leading storm research team founded by hurricane forecast pioneer William Gray said the six-month season beginning on June 1 would likely see 15 named tropical storms.

Juanita has a theory that we are way too nice to hurricanes.

“We give them nice names like Carla or Katrina or Ida.  That’s obviously not working.  We can’t name them after awful people like  Jerry Falwell or Sarah Palin or Liz Cheney because the last damn thing a hurricane needs is more hot air,” she admits.

“However, if someone would announce that Liz Cheney is coming to town and she’s packing 150 mile per hour winds and lotsa tornadoes and three-fourths of the Gulf of Mexico, people would most assuredly believe it and leave town.  They are not likely to believe that about something named Bonnie or Colin.  Everybody knows that Bonnie is all talk and no action and Colin?  Colin?  Colin is a wimp.  You know that.”

“I think we should quit calling them hurricanes and start calling them Pissed-Off Backhoes With Teeth.  That’ll make people move.”

She’s right, you know.

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